Sen. Orin Hatch addresses opioid epidemic

Following a "60 Minutes"-Washington Post investigation highlighting how industry lobbyists may have swayed Congress to exacerbate the opioid epidemic, Sen. Orin Hatch took to the Senate floor to address the issue. See Hatch's remarks.

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[oceanlore]

How does a town of 392 people in W Virginia receive 2 million opioid pills in a single year?

[serverofcawd]

Sen Orin Hatch may be the reason that a life saving plant called: Kratom which helps people get off deadly opiates is still legal.

[popev]

A .38 caliber bullet directly into the brain will cure opioid addiction. That is a cheap and easy and 100% effective way to deal with these opioid addicts. Get rid of them all! NOW!

[denawalters]

Go after the abusers. There the problem not the drugs.cuz a abuser would snort glue if it got them high.so abusers need to be stopped.

[danishnative]

Orrin gets his high standards from the LDS pyramid in downtown SLC. They have been his inspiration for quite a few years now.

[Iamrightyouarewrong]

Military industrial narco oligarchy of America or Mi.N.O.A

[baldmohawks]

i wasn't recruited by the church. i wasn't recruited by morehouse.

or yale.

#Marines

[chaddlawson]

This guy is vulgar to me he's incompetent he doesn't take responsibility for a bill he is obviously familiar with. These agencies blaming with the DEA agents weren't whistleblowers. Seems to me like they knew this was going to put more people they were supposed to protect in danger.